Since Lambertus has made some changes, now all the country maps are having the same ID’s.
Please be patient until he has restored his scripts.
Thanks for the reports and your patience, I’ve been away to a multi-day congress and only now see this. I’ll try to fix this asap.
The build scripts have slowly drifted apart between the country server and the custom map servers and unfortunately the fix is more complex than I thought. I will need more time to fix the country map generation on the non-country servers.
Lambertus,
There are sites like driverpacks.net switched to bittorrent to download the files. Earlier they used to do somewhat same like this site then they switched to bittorrent inorder to save the hosting charges. This has some advantages such as saving the bandwidth also dowloaders can also contribute back to the project by seeding the files that they downloaded. May not be every one but some will do this for sure.
This may be a viable option for future. Then there is no need to spend the time to fix the servers hosted in different places.
I think the constraints here are CPU and disk I/O, rather than bandwidth. Plus, all files change every two weeks.
Regards,
Peter.
With the current servers and user load there is no bottleneck in CPU, disk space or I/O. There was recently a question at the university whether the Garmin traffic is excessive which caused me to rush a change in the way the countries maps are generated. Unfortunately this included a bug which I cannot fix currently because somehow the (S)FTP server won’t let me in these days and support hasn’t replied to my questions yet 
Regarding bittorrent:
I think Beddhist is correct in his assessment that the weekly update cycle reduces the chance that bittorrent can effectively reduce the traffic. For some individual cases like some of the oft-downloaded country maps (e.g. Germany) it might very well reduce traffic, but I’m skeptical it will help much. So, because of this reason and very restricted available hobby-time I currently don’t plan to experiment with bittorrent as it adds just another thing to maintain plus the added complexity. The trade-off isn’t there (yet) for me.
hello
I downloaded Oman country and it don’t work on gps.
I try with “Enable manual tile selection” with yemen and countries near oman and it works for all countries except Oman
do you have a solution ?
thanks
I have installed the Oman tiles and others and I can see all the detail in Mapsource. What exactly is your problem?
Regards,
Peter.
I try with “Enable manual tile selection” with yemen and countries near oman and it works for all countries except Oman on my Garmin montana 610. that means I see all informations, all details when I look yemen on my gps but when I look Oman, I see only global worldwide map.
I just downloaded now Oman “osm_generic_macosx.zip 30M Map installer for BaseCamp / Mac OSX platform.” and install it on basecamp and It works very well
I think the problem is about : osm_generic_gmapsupp.zip 29M
You have maybe several generic maps with the same tiles on your Montana. This can lead to such errors.
You can check this with Javawa Device Manager: http://www.javawa.nl/jdm_en.html
when I connect my GPS with base camp. it works
so I change the name Oman.img in gmapsupp.img and it works now on my GPS. I don’t now really why because other maps I downloaded have other names that gmapsupp.img
thanks
The map I got from garmin.openstreetmap.nl (new style) looks very nice in day, but in night profile it still is mostly white.
Text appears with a black background (as expected), but the background in the rest of the map is still white (bad for night vision). What am I doing wrong?
You are doing nothing wrong. The map is for day mode only. Please disable night mode and in darkness just adjust the brightness.
Regards,
Peter.
Thanks, I’ll keep it in day mode.
Another question. There is a section on my map with a dune, but in my Garmin etrex Legend HCx, the dunes cover all in it, including towns, train tracks and roads.
I get the dunes in all details levels on the etrex. Is there a way to hide the dunes to make everything else visible?
@ligfietser
I am sorry, once again, garmin.openstreetmap.nl are perfect and its me who is messing things up. I am sorry, but the dune thing is not an issue. Sorry and thanks
Many thanks frequent updates that helped me update not only gps but also printed version (in few selected areas in vavuniya, Sri Lanka).
I installed both oms generic routable new (LKA_11-01-2016) and also generic routable (LKA_11-01-2016). Upon zooming to vavuniya town area, there exists a water tank http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3629402393 as well as a telecom tower http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3753555604 both displayed correctly in the open streetmap. OSM generic ones shows the telecom tower but not the water tank (or water tower however you call it) and OSM generic new shows water tank but not the telecom tower. Is there any possibility to include both information in osm generic ones and/or osm genric new.
Telecom tower (man_made=mast) is not rendered on the generic new because in the Netherlands they are all over the place, thousands of pois are cluttering the map. About OSM generic, missing features you can request on the mkgmap-dev mailing list: http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/dev/maillist
Thanks. I posted as per your suggestion. Type is file bit new for me. It will take some time for me to understand discussion over there. Is there any way I can include bus halts and pedestrian crossings with the gamin maps?
highway=bus_stop
If you look in the points file you see that bus_stops are rendered:
highway=bus_stop [0x2f17 resolution 24]
Go to the corresponding typ file, https://github.com/ligfietser/mkgmap-style-sheets/blob/master/typ/osm%20generic%20new/2000.txt
and lookup poi type 0x2f17
[_point]
Type=0x02f
SubType=0x17
String1=0x04,bus stop
String2=0x03,bushalte
With the typ editor you can make another icon
highway=crossing is not rendered so you can’t add it, you have to compile your own mkgmap style.